THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Lawyers representing Slobodan Milosevic have asked the U.N. war crimes tribunal to issue a subpoena to force former U.S. President Bill Clinton to testify at his trial, documents showed on Tuesday.

"In his position as former president of the United States, Mr Clinton had a continuous role and unique knowledge of events relevant to the indictment," the lawyers said in a written request filed last week but only made public on Tuesday.

Lawyers Steven Kay and Gillian Higgins said his evidence was needed to make sure the trial was "informed and fair".

They said Milosevic had written a personal letter to Clinton asking him to testify but had not received a response. They added the U.S. embassy in The Hague had written to them last year explaining the opposition of the U.S. government to the request.

Milosevic, who has argued that he was a peacemaker in the 1999 Kosovo conflict and that the West committed war crimes, has also asked the court to subpoena retired U.S. general Wesley Clark to appear as a witness in his defense.

Clark directed NATO's bombing of Kosovo in an 11-week campaign led by Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to halt Serbian repression in the region.

Judges decided last year not to call Blair and Gerhard Schroeder, German Chancellor at the time of the bombing, as witnesses.

Milosevic has been on trial for four years on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

He has used up more than four fifths of the 150 days allotted for his defense, which suggests the case could be wrapped up in the next few months.

Clinton's war criminal use of NATO; his total support for drug running Albanian (KLA) muslim murdering of defensless Kasovo Serbian priests, men women and children Christians, will always be remembered - Right along side his murder of defenseless men women and children at Waco; his 'stand down' order that led to the Cole disaster; the armed kidnapping of Elian Kaza; and the China military secrets giveaway.

All he is doing is postioning himself to be UN Secretary General. Kofi's term is up later this year and who better to be UN General than His As&holeness. GOD save us all cause we have BIG problems ahead.

this is one of the fairly rare glimpses at this part of power politics - assassinations. the fact he told his lawyer he was being poisoned with the wrong medication really screws things up for the Hague - i bet the minute that conversation went out they doubled his dosage or whatever. Now he is dead and the cover-up can begin.

"What are you advocating? That we submit to the tribunals or that other countries shouldnt? The latter would be more just."

No, I'm pointing out a bit of hypocrisy on the US' part. Our government supports this kangaroo court financially and advocates it's legitimacy as such but we won't allow ourselves to be judged by it while we send others there to be judged. Like I said, hypocrisy.

I think the Hague should never have been instituted, ever, and apparently GW agrees with me but yet we still support it with our tax dollars. Now you tell me what you advocate for.

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